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Their concern for him is something he has consciously nurtured over the years, as he’s cast himself as the whole sect’s didi to be fussed over—an easy transfer of sentiment left over from da-ge’s day, since Nie Huaisang was hardly the only disciple to refer to Nie Mingjue that way, even if he was Nie Huaisang’s da-ge first, and most, and always.
He's never put much stock in the sincerity of apologies, anyway; he’s made too many he didn't mean, aided by that guilelessness people have always seen in him.

















